Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Thought is free.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
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.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
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 jug fills drop by drop.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.