There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wel…

He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.

At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural w…