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

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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

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