Sophie

“Hommes plus qu'ingrats, qui flétrissez par le mépris les jouets de vos passions, vos victimes ! c'est vous qu'il faut punir des erreurs de notre jeunesse …; si vains du droit de nous juger,… Est-il un seul état pour les malheureuses filles ? Elles avaient un droit naturel à toute la parure des femmes : on y laisse former mille ouvriers de l'autre sexe.”
― Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro

“I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me
O you were the best of all my days”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Each type of activity produces the corresponding sort of person”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“From thence we proceeded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before. It was here that Charles I. had collected his forces. This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of parliament and liberty. The memory of that unfortunate king, and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar interest to every part of the city which they might be supposed to have inhabited. The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration. The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein