"I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."
"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner I promise you."
"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."
"At certain periods of life we live years of emotion in a few weeks; and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new."
" 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that is difficult."
The History of Henry Esmond
