One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Books may well be the only true magic.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.