One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.