Hall Caine

“A book may be a flower that blows; a star that glows; a storm that flows; a flame that flies; a tragedy that destroys, or a comedy that cracks its sides with mirth.”

“To be in love is to be in the condition of perpetual anesthesia.”

“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”

“The greater the sinner the greater the saint.”

“A man's real life is, and must be, chiefly in his own home.”

“There is no more beautiful sight than a young girl in love, and there is no more absurd.”

“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals—that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”

“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

“Thinking is the soul talking to itself.”

“Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.”

“Jealousy is the most pathetic of all the passions.”

“The world has been tragicomical enough without my help.”

“The man who is truly good and wise will not fail to be gentle and courteous.”