Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

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

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

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

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.