It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.