“A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.”

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

“To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.”

“In honor of October, really just hours away now.....Brew me a cup for a winter's night.For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;Spice it with love and stir it with care,And I'll toast our bright eyes,my sweetheart fair.”

“Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.”

“Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.”

“The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?”