To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

... justice is mercy's highest self.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.