Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.