The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.