There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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