God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The mortician interviewing the corpses

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.