We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.