A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.