There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.