Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.