Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.