The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
Life is so unlike theory.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
