A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

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

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

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