Emotions and Feelings

What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.

Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

If I should meet thee

When we two parted

When we two parted

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;