You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.