The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?