There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

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.

The secret to greatness:do what has been overlooked by the great.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

[Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy.

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.