Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.