The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade..

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves..

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it..

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people..

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine..

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the suc….

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum..

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder….

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues..

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false..

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage..

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 ….

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which invol….

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces..

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evi….

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum….