I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Make your best thoughts into action.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.