“Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.”

“You do not see as quite as well as you think.”

“You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”

“The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.”

“It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.”

“If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.”