Since when was genius found respectable

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years