It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.