There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.