But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.