A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.