There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
What is there that money will not do?
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
