Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone Quotes

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.