When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.