The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.