Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour Quotes
What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. It would be a face without a smile; a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth? Are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
Young Crime's finishing-school.
A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of.
Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
The scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it.
Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.