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

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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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