My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot.