When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

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

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.