Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

Marley was dead: to begin with.