It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.