“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
“On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn”
“The spelling and handwriting were those of a man imperfectly educated, but still the language itself was forcible. In the expressions of endearment there was a kind of rough, wild love; but here and there were dark unintelligible hints at some secret not of love,----some secret that seemed of crime. "We ought to love each other," was one of the sentences I remember, "for how everyone else would execrate us if all was known." Again: "Don't let anyone be in the same room with you at night,----you talk in your sleep." And again: "What's done can't be undone; and I tell you there's nothing against us unless the dead could come to life." Here there was underlined in a better handwriting (a female's), "They do!”
“The pen is mightier than the sword!”
“To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says:"Leave no stone unturned.”
“Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can”