Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Idling has always been my strong point.

That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.