"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"