It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I live, which is the main point.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.