It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.