So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

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

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.