The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

Remember Whose You Are.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.