Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.