John Halifax, Gentleman

“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.””

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“I could hear the voice that, speaking to me, was always tender with pity”

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.””

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality”

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“I have seen many a face that was more good-looking”

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.””

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence”

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik