If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.