“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in...”

“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

“A woman may get to love by degreesthe best fire does not flare up the soonest.”

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just begin...”

“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beautyit flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the wo...”

“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.”

“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”

“My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products th...”

“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see hi...”

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actua...”

“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.”

“His introduction throws me. The only time I can envision "Hi, I'm a surgeon" as a fitting introduction is if I were on a gurney in a stark white room and a man wielding a scalpel was standing over ...”