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

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.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

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.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.