The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.