Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature..

There's no doctor like meat and drink..

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world..

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of ….

It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid….

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once..

lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat t….

There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here th….

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst peo….

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride..

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voi….

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?.