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.

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.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.