A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

Everything is all one - that is the beginning and end with you.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse...

For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...

History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.

A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their solitary moments with hastily-snatched caresses, are prepared for their future life together as the novice is prepared for the cloister—by experiencing its utmost contrast.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.