It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

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.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.