Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

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

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of 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.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?