I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

You can't win without the ball.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.