Imagination grows by exercise.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.