A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
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...
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine a...
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
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.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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