Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her.

Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.