The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We’ve all been there.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.