A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.