Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

We are only qualified for God’s glory when we glorify people

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.