A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?