Travel was a species of warfare.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower.

sometimes we doubt the truth in the face of this earth, but not to worry. the important thing is to follow your conscience to walk in the truth

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.