But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.