You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

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.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.