Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense