Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

I want to be a good human being.

You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

I don't get hit on enough.

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.