Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.