"Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be."

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."

"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."

"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."