The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

You are in every line I have ever read.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.