It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

History repeats itself.

Man cannot choose his duties.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.