Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

I'm gonnna break your faces!

God bless the Reference Librarians

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.