“Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

“Things are always different from what they might be.”

“I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.”

“There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.”

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do.""So as to do them?" asked her aunt."So as to choose," said Isabel”

“do you think it isbetter to be clever than to be good?”“Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good fornothing unless you are clever.”

“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”