Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

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

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.