Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Sunlight is painting.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A lie never lives to be old.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
