Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.