Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.Joined July 2011
628 Followers 790 FollowingArt is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
592 Followers 700 FollowingIf you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.
592 Followers 753 FollowingIt was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
590 Followers 655 FollowingAnd yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
609 Followers 600 FollowingIn reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
565 Followers 768 FollowingA great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
599 Followers 799 FollowingIf one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
618 Followers 807 FollowingIn how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
607 Followers 698 FollowingEvery women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.
593 Followers 592 FollowingUnder all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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558 Followers 761 FollowingMy main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
575 Followers 484 FollowingThe politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
601 Followers 733 FollowingI believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
596 Followers 793 FollowingIf all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
631 Followers 709 FollowingRest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.