"It is not the being in a place, but the being in a state, that makes us happy."

"I am never solitary, for I am never alone."

"I have learned to suffer in silence, and not to make my complaints known to any but God."

"I still find, and find it to my comfort, that I am not in the number of the rich. If I am not, I am not in the number of them that are in danger of falling into temptation and a snare, and into many f…"

"I should be glad if I could spend my whole life in reading and writing."