The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine.

He could make mistakes.... the first time.

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

Get bored with your past, it's over!

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!

Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.