If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.
He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.
Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.