What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. . . What you first gain,. . . is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. . . Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along.