Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Always cherish the gift of reading.

A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.