One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.