There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

A good thing can't be cruel.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.