American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.
And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.
In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security.
Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power. . . but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man. . . Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.
I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.