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

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

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?

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.