The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

To attract more money, you must be attractive, in the sense that people will want and prefer your products or service over those of your competitior.

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.