Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

The highest rational achievement of the finest intellects consists in grasping that certain matters lie beyond their powers to grasp.