Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

She was all of a muck of sweat.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…

As long as one knows that there is a judgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and to serve and do what he can. People's trust is very dear, and one…