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

“As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weather-beaten, ragged old rooks’ nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.”

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

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

“...and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

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