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

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.

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

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

I remain attached to my nation.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn.