And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.