I think I owe my life to cork soles.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.