Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.