It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

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

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?