How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

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.

My child reflect the treatment I give.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

Love everybody, serve everybody.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.

The fundamental things apply As time goes by.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.