She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. The Picture of Dorian Gray
All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina
The challenge now is to develop human history as a science. Guns, Germs And Steel
I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Quotes