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

"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."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

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

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

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

"‎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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

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

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."