“Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.”

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.