On two thousand a year a man can afford to be honest.

Kick out lustily right and left!--After all, the world is like a spaniel; the more you beat it, the better it likes you--if you have money.

Only don't kick too hard; for, after all, it has a hundred million pair of shins to your one.' 'Don't fear that I shall run a-muck against society just now.

I am too thoroughly out of my own good books.

I have been for years laughing at Young England, and yet its little finger is thicker than my whole body, for it is trying to do something; and I, alas, am doing utterly nothing.