And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

All haste implies weakness.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!