...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.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.