For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.