, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. ...
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong." "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlying our hard hearts."