“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it”

“If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.”

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

“Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.”