Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

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