[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.