Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Soulmates don’t choose each other

We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up.

Satan is hopelessly desperate as Jesus waits patiently.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

When you see the need, take the action.

A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.