If he shows them not to you at first, in the flexible strength which they have acquired over his mind, do not believe that they are the less powerful.

He who desires to make converts, must begin by degrees.

But that he should sacrifice to an inexperienced young man, whose ruling motive he will term a childish passion, any part of those treasured principles which he has maintained through good repute and bad repute--Oh, do not dream of such an impossibility! If you meet at all, you must be the wax, he the seal--you must receive, he must bestow, an absolute impression." "That," said Peveril, "were unreasonable.

I will frankly avow to you, Alice, that I am not a sworn bigot to the opinions entertained by my father, much as I respect his person.

I could wish that our Cavaliers, or whatsoever they are pleased to call themselves, would have some more charity towards those who differ from them in Church and State.