I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

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

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.