I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you.. - William Makepeace Thackeray

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.