It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

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

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.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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.