One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.