Quotes from George Augustus Henry Sala

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.