Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Henrik Ibsen

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.

Lynsay Sands

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Albert Einstein

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

David Livingstone

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or,