We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

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

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.