I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.