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

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

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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

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

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.