He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

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