Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

It is good to love the unknown.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.