The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.