The richest soil always bears the rankest mushrooms: France is always bearing mushrooms.
Position, she thought, was the only thing that, like old wine or oak furniture, improved with years.
Position is a pillory: sometimes they pelt one with rose-leaves, and sometimes with rotten eggs, but one is for ever in the pillory!
We are too afraid of death: that fear is the shame of Christianity.
He never could prevail on his vanity to break with her, lest men should think she had broken with him.