Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

True love is better than glory.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.