Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

If you want to be really beautiful, adorn yourself with a smile.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.