He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

Don’t go, ” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

Our health depends on the health of our planet.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.