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.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.