"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'"

"I have no doubt that the mass of the working people of England are as yet, in their own country, an unknown territory to the educated classes."

"I have made it a rule of my life to avoid all unnecessary contact with the world."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"It was a dark and stormy night."