Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.