For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.