After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love .

John Piper

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. p. 135.

Bertrand Russell

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

William F. Buckley

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war.

Benjamin Franklin

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk