Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength

Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.