Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.
There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.