O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.