The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon.

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.