Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.