I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry — I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart — God knows what its name was — that tear… - Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

what was over couldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured;