Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

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.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.