There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Time produces quality product

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

Lesson after lesson, that's Deeper Level... if you can amplified it... apply it... and to recall it... you have successful learnt it.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal.

The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.