...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.