I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.