"I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive."

“I think it's so important, as young women, to have relationships, especially when you're in your early 20s. But it's always so important to focus on yourself.”

“I myself am an absolute abyss.”

“If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.”

Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

“Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?”

“Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.”

“If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.”

“You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.”

“Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1820). “Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698”, p.94