"She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere."

"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."

""I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney,…"

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

"Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that …"

"Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon …"

"Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves."

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

"[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, …"

"The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums."