“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”

“My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.”

“Our enemies are our outward consciences.”

“Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.”