It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

It's dogged as does it.

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.