My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing.

Friendless is most loneliness in the world

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.