Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by he who interests his heart in everything.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho‘ the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

To say a man is fallen in love--or that he is deeply in love—or up to the ears in love—and sometimes even over head and ears in it--carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man.

An injury unanswered, in time grows weary of itself and dies away in voluntary remorse. In bad dispositions, capable of no restraint but fear, it has a different effect; the silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...

And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about? – Oh ! ’tis out of all plumb, my lord, – quite an irregular thing!