Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.