Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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.
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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