The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so… - Anthony Trollope

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

Every man to himself is the centre of the whole world; — the axle on which it all turns. All knowledge is but his own perception of the things around him. All love, and care for others, and solicitude for the world's welfare, are but his own feelings as to the world's wants and the world's merits.

But she knew this, — that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.