Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.