I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

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