Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.