England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.