I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

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.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

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