I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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.