People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.