"The town was a place of great resort, and much business was done there."

"I am not a very religious man, in the common acceptation of the term."

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if…"

"I have been so beset, and so worried, and so torn by the anxiety of this new book, that I have been made ill by it."

"I have no patience with people who are always talking about their own grievances."