Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Don't judge a book by its cover

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do.

Forgiving unforgivable things is real forgiveness.Loving unlovable things is real love.Seeing someone’s inner most monster and choosing to stay is true loyalty. (It’s not something everyone can do)

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.