Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

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.

If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.

Don't make your character that people can walk on it, make your character as sky so that people would dream to get there

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.