This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

A library is also a place where love begins.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.