Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.