What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.