"No, I'm not clever. I've always cared..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Tragedies come in the hungry hours.”

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.”

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

“Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.”

“Humanity is the equity of the heart.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest”

“Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".”