We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!