Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

Chase leaned on the table, staring Sammy straight in the eye. "If you ever, ever try to harm my mate again, in any way, no matter how indirectly, I will find you.

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.

The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.