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“There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.”
Source : Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”
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“Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.”
Source : Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”
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“I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.”
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“Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.”
Source : James Gleick (2011). “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”, p.12, HarperCollins UK
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“The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.”
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“Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.”
Source : "12 Sick Burns From People Who Didn’t Get The Jane Austen Hype" by Sara Boboltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015. 
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“It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.”
Source : Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”
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“There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.”
