The woman that deliberates is lost.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.