Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.