I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.