I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
The entire social order. . . is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [. . . ] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.
God alone is immortal, imperishable.
The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.