She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Life stand still here.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

To love makes one solitary.

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

Pay attention to proverbs.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?