Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

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

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

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

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.