Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.

Hold on to thy sacred dreams.

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.