The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.