Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace