I prefer the term ‘sexual deviant’ myself,” Saiman said.
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement