Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

I'm so excited about the new iPad, I just iPeed my iPants.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

I believe clothing tell a story.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.