It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to…

- R.D. Blackmore

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

- R.D. Blackmore

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

- R.D. Blackmore

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

- R.D. Blackmore

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

- R.D. Blackmore

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

- R.D. Blackmore

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

- R.D. Blackmore

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a …

- R.D. Blackmore

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

- R.D. Blackmore