Isabel

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
― Francis Bacon

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
― Oscar Wilde