In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.