I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.