The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
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.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.