I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age..

Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain….

Have a heart that never hardens.

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever ….

There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the….

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; o….

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of ev….

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pi….

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for th….

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothin….

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth..

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.

We are so very 'umble..

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted..

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man..

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and de….

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place..

We must scrunch or be scrunched..

We need never be ashamed of our tears..

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I….