I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people