Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.