One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.