“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.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”