There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
the best of all good friends is pride.