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.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.