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

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.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.