People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.