The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.