Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.