...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.