It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.