People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness. . . for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
You know my God. My God is called love
Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives,. . . but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.