Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr. , Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls. ]
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
The Republican health care plan: don't get sick. . . The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick. . . This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!
We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.
It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.