Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

We must walk before we run.

Translation is at best an echo.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.