If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

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