Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Each time you happen to me all over again.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.