The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

From this point look above the roofs of the city, and imagine! Our landscape was as manufactured as that of any great French or English park. But we welked in a garden of hell, among trees, some still without popular names, whose seeds had sometimes been brought to our island in the instetines of slaves.