The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.

Try the best to do the best of what you do, and you may find yourself doing the best of what you do best.

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.