“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.”

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Never cut what you can untie.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.

Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.

People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.