Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

It is no use trying to sum people up.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

Civilization can never be sustainable.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.