All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.