A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
Civilization is another word for respect for life.
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast?
Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance.
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people- those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;.
Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself- like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short.
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.
There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible.
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority- headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor- ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
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