Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

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

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.