For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

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