The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Look twice before you leap.
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
I'm a big sports fan in general.
My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.