Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!