Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

With a book he was regardless of time.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.