Time, if your value for it is money, is the one possession which your fellow-creatures can never take away from you, and which you can always make sure of keeping, to the end of your days.No Name by Wilkie Collins
To assert your advice upon the strength of your authority is to provoke your pupil to question your right to advise him.No Name by Wilkie Collins
Her judgment was as strong as ever; her capacity for seeing things in their true light was not in the least impaired, but her power of self-restraint, her command over her own emotions, was gone.No Name by Wilkie Collins
Somehow, whatever men dared to do in the name of the law seemed to be invariably capable of justifying itself on the ground of right.No Name by Wilkie Collins
As he advanced still closer and closer to the end, the one absorbing interest that still kept its place was the interest of recovering life.No Name by Wilkie Collins
The first great law which asserts itself in the progress of human life is, in the sphere of intellect, the law of change; and, in the sphere of morals, the law of retribution.No Name by Wilkie Collins
The vilest among my fellow-creatures has his just rights; and the best among them forgets sometimes to respect themNo Name by Wilkie Collins
It is part of the nature of every human being to dread death: and, part of the education of a Christian to dread it hopefully.No Name by Wilkie Collins
It's better to go than stay, I am quite clear about that. What I am not quite so certain about is whether it is wise to announce my departure beforehand, or to slip away secretly, without saying a word about it to anybodyNo Name by Wilkie Collins
He said with his hand on the door, 'One good turn deserves another; wait till the morning, and I will be even with you.'No Name by Wilkie Collins