"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"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."
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to 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."
"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."