But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.