Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

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.

A good horse makes short miles.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.