I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.