Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Beware of creating tedium!

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.