Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.