Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.