Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

Colours started to seep into his black and white life

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.