...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Practicing reflection daily ensures a healthy and invigorating lifestyle for both your mind and body. Your thoughts will be the key to your success.

Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.