You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.
Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. . . . Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.