Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.