“Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.”

“When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.”

“People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.”

“It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.”

“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.”

“The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.”

“I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.”