Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

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

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.