It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

You need to characterize beauty by association.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously

I love you till kingdom come, evergreen.

The most important thing to wear is a smile.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.