A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
If a way to the Better there be$$$ it exacts a full look at the Worst.
If you don't know where you're going$$$ any road'll take you there.
Beauty lay not in the thing$$$ but in what the thing symbolized.
The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
The inquiry constantly is what will please$$$ not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient$$$ fickleness$$$ and folly.
Whatever you are I never want to see you different. To me you are most beautiful.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Stop thinking about fun and have it.