The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad