I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.