Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.