If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion