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.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

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

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?