The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life..

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist..

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

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of….

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays..

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds..

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself..

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing..

I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really ….

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with th….

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable..

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fa….

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fe….

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than ….

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel..

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty..

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise..

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of me….

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

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and vall….

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses..