Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.