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.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.