Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing.....

“ Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ”

Frances Hodgson Burnett

From : A Little Princess