A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

You must be wise and act with wisdom

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Jack: "..You were the on­ly one I saw when I closed my eyes"Lexi: "Then why wasn't I enough when they were open?

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.