Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.