Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.