Recently added

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

"And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts," Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, "she is proud."

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.