Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do. . . you're given the job of a lifetime. . . you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.
Definitely in movies, girls talk about boys all the time. And even in real life, I feel like a lot of my conversations revolved around - or maybe not now because I'm getting a little older - obsessing over boys.