I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

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.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

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.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them