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

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.

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

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.