"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."

"I do loathe explanations."

"I'm not young enough to know everything."

"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall."

"Oh, it's — it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't ha…"

"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."

"The tragedy of a man who has found himself out."

""They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een." No more is remember…"

"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who…"