A shadow or a friend, what's the difference?

“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”

So throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it...

To a young heart everything is fun.”

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”

“I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.