I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

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.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to 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.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.