The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.