""It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.”

“Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.”

“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.”

“There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”

“We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us”

“I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”

“Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.”