"Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one be…"

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

"I show Baby, and Oswald shows the hounds. We’ve nothing else to interest anybody."

"She rides to hounds, and talks Italian, and writes for the Times."

"I fancy that he will be a great statesman. After all, Mr. Finn, that is the best thing a man can be, unless it is giv…"

"We all profess to believe when we’re told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and ye…"

"“But what made Miss Boreham turn nun?” “I fancy she found the penances lighter than they were at home,” said the lord…"

"Men are so seldom really good. They are so little sympathetic. What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his …"

"It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the considera…"

"Let a man be of what side he may in politics, — unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, — he will think …"