If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.