I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

It is no use trying to sum people up.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

Live and learn and pass it on.

Though, ' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.