The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.