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 afte….

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me….

Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some eq….

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His….

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him..

We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and….

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrush….

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat viole….

Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his ow….

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think tha….

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret..

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 perfectio….

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning..

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason..

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything..

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

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incom….

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable..

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more..