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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.
But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.