"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."

"Even not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!"

""Ought"! What an ugly word that is!"

"Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others — what is t…"

"Even the slightest failure was an indignity to Olaf; but to Hans failure had no more moral significance than success."