I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.