It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

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

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.