You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.