“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.”

“In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.”

“No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.”

“Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”

“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

“You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.”

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”