autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.