…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.

When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.