The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.