Mr. Copperfield… told her, when she doubted herself, that a loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom… – Charles Dickens, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation o
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. – Gioacchino Rossini
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. – Leland Stanford