We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

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

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

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