E.D.E.N. Southworth

This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!