I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

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.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Life is the soul's nursery.