Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.