No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things.

If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.