Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.