Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.