She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?