what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. - Charles Dickens

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.