“The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.”

“The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.”

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”

“All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.”

“Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.”

“Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”