A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.