No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.