As for me, I will believe in no belief that does not make itself manifest by outward signs. I will think no preaching sincere that is not recommended… - Anthony Trollope

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.