Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.