If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.