I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

When all else fails, there's always delusion.

The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.