I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Charles Dickens
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare
Thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the most difficult thing to know that the mind can imagine Miguel de Cervantes
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s H. G. Wells
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. Jane Austen
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. Charles Dickens
Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. Lewis Carroll
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L. M. Montgomery