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

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

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

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.