Elizabeth Hamilton

“Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you, and all that you do turns out admirably.”
― E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle

“I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”
― E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle

“Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living