Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

Why should your heart not dance?