Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.