Always winter but never Christmas.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.