The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
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