The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

And I chose life and love and happiness and pain

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

Most right-wing person I know!

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.