There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

As conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? the Revolution of the True.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds; and if you wait a little, the wind will shift, and the moon will look out, and you will see that you were walking straight all the while, though you thought you had lost the road.

Be worthy, love, and love will come; for it is not won by clamors, nor bought with gold, but grows like a flower where there is light and warmth, and dies if foolish hands pluck at it in haste, or shut it up in a dark place to be kept.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be; the very light seems to wash the brain clean, as if thought itself had been stained by the dark.

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’

He suddenly recalled Sonia’s words, ‘Go to the cross-roads, bow down to the people, kiss the earth… and say aloud to the whole world, I am a murderer.’ … It came over him like a fit… He fell to the earth on the spot…. He knelt down… and kissed that filthy earth with bliss and rapture.