The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it.

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

I'm gluten free, but that still allows me some chocolate!

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.