I don't know how others feel, but, to me, love isn't all.

I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strength and integrity to lean on.

I have had it so far, and I know I could not live without it." "Your ideal is a high one.

Do you hope to find it, Rose ?" Mac asked, feeling, with the humility of a genuine love, that he could not give her all she desired.
"Yes," she answered, with a face full of the beautiful confidence in virtue, the instinctive desire for the best which so many of us lose too soon, to find again after life's great lessons are well learned.

"I do hope to find it, because I try not to be unreasonable and expect perfection.