An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

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.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.