We are so very 'umble.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.