And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

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.

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.

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.

Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

I'm a woman of the '90s.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.