A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.