No Furniture Is So Charming As Books.

Among The Smaller Duties Of Life I Hardly Know Any One More Important Than That Of Not Praising Where Praise Is Not Due.

In Composing, As A General Rule, Run Your Pen Through Every Other Word You Have Written; You Have No Idea What Vigor It Will Give Your Style.

What Two Ideas Are More Inseparable Than Beer And Britannia?

The Main Question To A Novel Is -- Did It Amuse? Were You Surprised At Dinner Coming So Soon? Did You Mistake Eleven For Ten? Were You Too Late To Dress? And Did You Sit Up Beyond The Usual Hour? If A Novel Produces These Effects, It Is Good; If It Does Not -- Story, Language, Love, Scandal Itself Cannot Save It. It Is Only Meant To Please; And It Must Do That Or It Does Nothing.

Poverty Is No Disgrace To A Man, But It Is Confoundedly Inconvenient.