Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
Cats like men are flatterers.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?