Literature is my Utopia

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.