Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
It is always the secure who are humble.
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.
It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!