The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

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

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

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