The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

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.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you – it must be deliberate.

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

I'm in you, you're in me.