The History of Henry Esmond

I think Steele shone rather than sparkled.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

If there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness.

Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

'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, as I know to my cost.