Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.