The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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.

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

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.