Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

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