It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.