Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.