To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British."

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat."

"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. . ."

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.