'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

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.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.