Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.