Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

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

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.