I protest against any absolute conclusion.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.