It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Beginnings are always messy.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.