I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

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.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!