Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.