Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

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

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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

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

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.