You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Writing is the supreme solace.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.