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.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

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.

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.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

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