I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.