Be prepared to tell me, with all your candour, the pros and contras there."-- Carlyle to Froude, 26th of September, 1871.

From The Hill, Dumfries.
-- Well would it have been for Froude's peace of mind if he had handed the parcel back again, and refused to look at it.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil scarcely yielded more fatal fruit.

He read the papers, however, and "for the first time realised what a tragedy the life in Cheyne Row had been." That he exaggerated the purport of what he read is likely enough.

When there are quarrels between husband and wife, a man naturally inclines to take the woman's side.