“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)”
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
“Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.”
“The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.”
“I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.”
“True socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”