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

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.