Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

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

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

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