Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

We always get help we ask for.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.