I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.