It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

True love is better than glory.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.