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“Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.”
Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216
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“Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.”
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“Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.”
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“Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”
Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”
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“I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.”
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“Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal. The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul. Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night: Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.”
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“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”
Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
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“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”
Source : Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13