We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not..

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

I like that you let yourself be surprised.

It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous.

I love. I have loved. I will love..

It is more than possible; it is probable..

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful..

But no one can ever say I didn’t sing..

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success..

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other.

God gave the day, God gave the strength..

God is the same everywhere..

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down..

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one..

Life did not stop, and one had to live..

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned..

It is always better to be slightly underdressed..

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there..

The playful search for beauty..