In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.