Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.