In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

But of works of art little can be said.