Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

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

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing