What is a Word's worth?

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her. If she spoke, he gave no sign of attention, and yet his next speech to any one else was modified by what she had said; sometimes there was an express answer to what she had remarked, but given to another person as though unsuggested by her.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Forgive. Such a small word. Only seven letters but they carry the weight of the world.

This is Scotland. Of course not liking whisky is a crime!

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Every breath is a new beginning and a new chance.

I’m not interested in making what’s easy. I’m interested in making what’s beautiful.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

It was the stars themselves which were singing, and it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.

He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her. If she spoke, he gave no sign of attention, and yet his next speech to any one else was modified by what she had said; sometimes there was an express answer to what she had remarked, but given to another person as though unsuggested by her.