A woman's weapon is her tongue. - Anthony Trollope

Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum