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.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.