Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

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 anyone else.

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.