What a blessing it is to love books.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.