Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
History develops, art stands still.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution. … On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.
I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.