A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

scales are the grammar of music.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Don't judge people by their physical appearances if you truly want to get to know them. Just watch their frequent footsteps and you would surely know their true personalities.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!