Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

I am the wisest man alive for I know one thing and that is that I know nothing.

No one is free even the birds are chained to the sky.

To observations which ourselves we make we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants big shoes a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy the coat tight the hat small and the shoes large.

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