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.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

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.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.