I have a simple taste, only the best.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.