The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.