I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.