Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

There are no rules for felicity.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.