For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human, – cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
But she knew this, – that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.
Little bits of things make me do it; – perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; – the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
What is there that money will not do?
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.