Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I wonder what Piglet is doing, " thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.