“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“The fact that different nations and states define the age of consent differently (in Florida it’s eighteen; in New York it’s seventeen; in England it’s sixteen) only gave him ammunition. He [Epstein] said these inconsistencies proved these laws were arbitrary and meaningless; no one could convince him that sex with minors was wrong, because no one could agree on what a minor was!”
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
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