We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven’s pleasure.
In the Destroyer’s steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
We know, Mr. Weller – we, who are men of the world – that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature .
Keep out of Chancery. It’s being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s being roasted at a slow fire; it’s being stung to death by single bees; it’s being drowned by drops; it’s going mad by grains.
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses – a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.