Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

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.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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