I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

It's dogged as does it.

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

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.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.