Virginia

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way. "

"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. "

"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. "

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. "

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. "

"It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. "

"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. "

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. "

"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. "

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. "

"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. "

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "

"The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. "

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. "

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street. "