Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.