Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.