It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be...
Common sense is not so common.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our...
History should be written as philosophy.
Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be...
He was a great patriot a humanitarian a loyal friend provided of course...
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to...
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of...
Better is the enemy of good.
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong what's legal and illegal ethical and unethical moral and immoral.