Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

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.