A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.