A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

In life everything is continually in flux.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.