A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.