Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.