One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar