A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.