An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.