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

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

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.

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

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.