I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

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.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.