We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.