There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
