The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

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

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.