Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

If you have an intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you asked for.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.