I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!

Believing takes practice.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions