Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.