"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."
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"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."
". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . ."