Retire within yourselves

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

She flew like a bird, only faster.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.