I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

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.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

Change is an illusion.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.