A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

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.