Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win… — Charles Dickens

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

[T]rifles make the sum of life.