“…thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.”

“ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.”

“But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.”

“We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart”

“Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.”

“...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.”

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”