In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.