It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.