'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

The best of women are hypocrites.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.