I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.