the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

There is compensation in all things.

I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.

I try to read and write something interesting every day.

One has no friend who has many friends.

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.