Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

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

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody