For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.