A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.