Never mingle love and business..

When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in ….

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest..

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else..

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..

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us..

Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their co….

The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartmen….

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself..

Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country wort….

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them ….

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a f….

This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a youn….

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy..

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with….

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed..

Easy reading requires hard writing..

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor..

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower..

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces..

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others..