[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.