There is no running away from a great grief.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.