The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.