Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
Fashion is a capricious deity.
I detest so much. . . those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase!