I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Swift doth young Love flee,

And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Speech is the small change of Silence.

Full lasting is the song, though he,

The singer, passes.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy

Close, and I reckon, rather true.

Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy;

Most, a dash between the two.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground,

When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

See ye not, Courtesy

Is the true Alchemy,

Turning to gold all it touches and tries?

Behold the life at ease; it drifts,

The sharpened life commands its course.

In tragic life, God wot,

No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul

When hot for certainties in this our life!

But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes

That look on it! the diverse things they see!

We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves.

And if I drink oblivion of a day,

So shorten I the stature of my soul.

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.