“What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness…”

“Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”

“The most bitter insult one can offer to a Londoner is "bastard" — which, taken for what it means, is hardly an insult at all.”

“Pages full of unlikely words,
Handfuls of hot, bitter tears.
They call the author a silly fool,
For they know not what he means.”

“Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.”

“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.

“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”