Blood is stronger than water; and, if either individual or national character be worth a farthing, it is not to be annihilated by any union - the multitudinous seas will not wash it out.
– Henry Glassford Bell
Perhaps you will regard it as a pardonable vanity which induces me here to mention that I have handed the kettle to Joanna Baillie to replenish her teapot in her home at Hampstead.
– Henry Glassford Bell
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.