At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

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.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.