"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am."

"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."

"Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune."

"I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law"