It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Heaven’s Bakery help them all.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.