A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist.

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.