The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.