The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.