An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.