The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.