If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.