It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home..

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie..

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the tru….

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast..

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in..

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall….

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down..

Change begets change..

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself..

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!.

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite..

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its inter….

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck..

Reflect upon your present blessings.

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored..

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her..

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind..

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted….

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again..

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquain….

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing..