Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.