"Skill to do comes of doing."

“I've seen too much in life to give up.”

“Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.”

“Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.”

“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”

“What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

“I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.”

“In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

“I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.”