Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

To know her was to love her.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Then never less alone than when alone.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.