How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.