God is making commerce His missionary.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Only the home can found a state.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Childish certainty that nothing could get him while under the covers wasn't much comfort, but it was a start.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

My life is a fairytale stuck at the climax.

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.""Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

I was never born, I didnt die.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.