I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.