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

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

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

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.