The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.