Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
The highest art is artlessness.
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
I’m just not interested. ” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes. ” … “Then how are you not interested.
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
I think I feel automatically at home in Italy