A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.