Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
Don't set your wit against a child.
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.