"It is a most remarkable thing that the most important events of our lives are often brought about by the most trivial causes."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

"He had a head of hair that was like a wig, and a face that was like a mask."

"Every man has some good in him, and every man has some bad in him."

"It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want, and the less we have, the less we want."