I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treat…

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

'[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convince…

In 1967: I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the …