A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

"You have been the last dream of my soul."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."

"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

"There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth."

"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."

"‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart."

"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."

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

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

"You are in every line I have ever read."

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood."

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."

"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"

"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."

"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."

"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."

"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."

"And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself."

"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)"

"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

"Life is made of so many partings welded together"

"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."

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

"Trifles make the sum of life."

"There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you."

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time."