Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that won't use the term radical Islamic terrorism, won't use it.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.