Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.