If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
The best style is the style you don't notice.
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.