It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.