Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else… — 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.