An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.