Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.