There is a skeleton in every house.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

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

Humor is wit and love.

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.