There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights; the light of all lights in this dark world is Love, and it shines most when men and women stand together and keep faith.

As Morrel and his son embraced on the pier-head… a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard… uttered these words in a low tone: “Be happy, noble heart… and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

The gratitude of the heart is the only debt which increases the more we pay it.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.