Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

I'm not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.