Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.