Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
One may quote till one compiles.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
All this is labour which never meets the eye. . . . But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.
When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe. ' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.