Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.