Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Danger has a bracing effect.

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.