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.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.