Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.