Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.