No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.