But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, take beards.Sons, be your mothers.The future of the world now liesIn coral wombs behind our eyes.

The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

What you don't know will hurt you.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.