But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

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

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.