Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.