Wilkie Collins

"“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”"

- Wilkie Collins

"In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues."

- Wilkie Collins

"Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humor, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…"

- Wilkie Collins