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

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.