"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."
"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"
"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."