- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.