I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.