English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.