Men when they are true are simple. They are often false has hell, and — Phineas Redux

"I show Baby, and Oswald shows the hounds. We’ve nothing else to interest anybody."

"She rides to hounds, and talks Italian, and writes for the Times."

"Let a man be of what side he may in politics, — unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, — he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort."

"I fancy that he will be a great statesman. After all, Mr. Finn, that is the best thing a man can be, unless it is given him to be a saint and a martyr and all that kind of thing, — which is not just what a mother looks for."

"“But what made Miss Boreham turn nun?” “I fancy she found the penances lighter than they were at home,” said the lord. “They couldn’t well be heavier.”"

"Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster becomes harder and harder in the opening as the man who has to open it becomes older."