The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.