We need never be ashamed of our tears.
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one’s self in going by.
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
To a young heart everything is fun.
Please, sir, I want some more.
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset.
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.