The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Most women are not so young as they are painted.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been…

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.