He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

My life is so different than I thought it would be.

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

This thaw took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?