a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.