If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!