cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Be the love the world needs. Think and act from your heart.

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

I'm constantly learning and evolving. I'm fascinated with life.

God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

A lot of cats are not that social.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.