If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.