A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.