There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.
Real power. . . comes not from hate, but from truth.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown. ' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
Living men are bound by time. . . Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
The women are the strong ones, truly.
Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.
I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.