If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.