All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.