What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.