If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail.

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

You're not a restful individual to be around" Ashaya to Dorian

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.