Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.