Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

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

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.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

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.