Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower?If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?

So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Potter

Justice is the essence of peace

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.