A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
The bow always strung ... will not do.
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.