I, who am silent, have done much; but Pierre will do more.

I had to fight my first battle to conquer my own stubborn soul, and the battle left me weak for the great work in the snows, but Pierre will not fight that battle, for I have trained him.
"This letter is for him.

Shall we not carry it to him?
For two days I have not seen Pierre." Father Anthony winced.
He said: "Do you deny yourself even the pleasure of the lad's company?
Alas, Father Victor, you forge your own spurs and goad yourself with your own hands.

What harm is there in being often with the lad ?" The sneer returned to the lips of Jean Paul Victor.
"The purpose would be lost--lost to my eyes and lost to his--the purpose for which I have lived and for which he shall live.

When I first saw him he was a child, a baby, but he came to me and took one finger of my hand in his small fist and looked up to me.