We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.