Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
Caricature is rough truth.
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.