Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Planning your day before it begins, and adjusting your plan through the day, is one of the most important daily habits.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

At least 25% of the money Americans spend on health care is wasted.

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

We’re more than just our dresses.