Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

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

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.