The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

I am too perfect for Evening, " Adam volunteers. "But that's all right." He smiles shyly at Aislin. "I am not too perfect for Aislin.

Take a Tree Pose in your life.

Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

The revolution starts now.