A loving heart is the truest wisdom

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other

Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn

Law is an ass, an idiot

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration