In Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, what are two good quotations that reflect Melanie's characteristics?

Melanie's gracious, loving spirit, as well as her
strength, courage, and unselfishness are shown throughout the novel. This passage
demonstrates all of these characteristics as Melanie nurses the wounded soldiers in
Atlanta, men who are suffering horribly in terrible
conditions:

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Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the
smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strange in one who was the
most timorous and modest of women. Sometimes when holding basins and instruments while
Dr. Meade cut out gangrened flesh, Melanie looked very white. And once, after such an
operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel. But as
long as she was where the wounded could see her, she was gentle, sympathetic and
cheerful, and the men in the hospitals called her an angel of
mercy.

Melanie's sacrifice is
clear. She puts aside her own great distress in order to help and comfort the wounded
and dying.

This passage from the novel shows Melanie's
behavior toward Rhett Butler, who is often reviled by those around her. Melanie,
however, does not judge or condemn others, not even the notorious Rhett
Butler:

In
all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence,
and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked
and unbelieving. And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her more timidly
gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice
done him.

Melanie's strong
sense of fairness is also part of her character. For all her many admirable character
traits, Melanie Wilkes is perhaps the most beloved character in the
novel.