Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.