The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.Collection: Valentines
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.Collection: Art
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.Collection: Beauty
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.Collection: Answers
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.Collection: Done
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.Collection: Beauty
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.Collection: Distance
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.Collection: Love
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.Collection: Honesty
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.Collection: Power
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.Collection: Brother
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?Collection: Jealous