It Is Better To Inspire

The Title Of Queen Rang Sweet To My Ears, Child Though I Was. ... This Idea Of A Crown Began Running In My Head Then Like A Tune, And Has Been Running A Lot In It Ever Since.

Praise Is The Only Gift For Which People Are Really Grateful. Marguerite, Countess Of Blessington I Praise Loudly; I Blame Softly.

You Philosophers Are Lucky Men. You Write On Paper And Paper Is Patient. Unfortunate Empress That I Am, I Write On The Susceptible Skins Of Living Beings.

Any Man Who Doesn't Partake In Cigar Smoking Is Nothing More Than A Weak-willed, Meandering Oaf, And I Would Never Put My Lips To Those Of Any Creature, Man Or Beast, Whose Lips Were Not Fresh Awash In The Currents Of Cigar Smoke.'

To Tempt And Be Tempted Are Closely Allied; And In Spite Of All The Finest Moral Maxims Buried In The Mind, When Emotion Interferes, When Feeling Makes Its Appearance, One Is Already Much Further Involved That One Realizes, And I Have Still Not Learnt How To Prevent Its Appearance.