A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

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.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.