A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.