Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.