Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But its also the only gift that does not keep on giving. – Paulina Porizkova
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton
