Short accounts make long friends.

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.

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

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.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.