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

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.

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.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

There needs not a great soul to make a hero

It has been said that

In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

Nine months of misery.