"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.