Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)

Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.