Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.