Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.