Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.