“The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.”
“When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.”
“Their sighan', cantan', grace-proud faces, Their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.”
“Let us do or die.”
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
“Suspense is worst than disappointment.”
“Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!”
“Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.”
“Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”
“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.”
“Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.”
“Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.”
“I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
“Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.”
“I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.”
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”