Truth allows no choice.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.