You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.
a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
All women are princesses , it is our right.
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?". . . "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?