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.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.