Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

Frequent the company of your betters.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

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 success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.