I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

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

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

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.

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

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.

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.