Every woman knows all about everything.
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
England is the Mother of Parliaments
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia. We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the [United] States are working , and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America. . . [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries. . . [in producing] a long habit of submission. . . [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.
I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.
I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.