Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.