I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace