ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I have nothing but great admiration for this gentleman . . . who's been able to withstand a lot of the foils and stumbling blocks in politics as we know them.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.