Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.