Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
. . because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.