One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

If you share your happiness with profound love, it will grow by leaps and bounds.

When we believe we can, we do – even when it seems all odds are against us.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.