A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

God bless us, every one!

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!