If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.