It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.