After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.