It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Life is so unlike theory.

Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.